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Opera, En Anglois, Avec Notes Par P. Shaw
Opera En Anglois Avec Notes Par P Shaw Author:Robert Boyle General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1738 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: In (Viort, the form of a nararal body, being, according to us, but an ef- Physics. fcntial modification, and, r. s ir. were, the ftamp of its matter, or fuch a convention of the magniuf. io, ftiape, motion, or reft, fittiation, and contexture, of the fmall parts th. it compofe it, as is neceffary to conftitute, and denominate it a particu'ar body ; and all thfe accidents being producible in matter by local motion ; w may w. ll fay, that the firft and universal, tho' not immediate caufj oi forms, is no other than God, who put matter into motion, eftablifhed its laws among bodies, and alfo, guided it in feveral cafes, at the beginning of things -, and, that among fecond caufes, the grand efficient of forms, is local motion : which, by varioufly dividing, fcqueftring, tranfpofing, and connecting the parts of matter, produces in them thofe accidents and qualities, upon account whereof, the portion of matter they diverfify, belongs to a determinate fpecies of natural bodies : yet this is not fo to be underftood, as if motion were only an efficient caufe in the generation of bodies; for 'tis alfo frequently one of the chief accidents, as in water, fire,« less